Marvel’s Auteur Approach About halfway through “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” I was startled by what I was watching. The whole movie was so wonderfully different from the over-CGI’d, heavy-on-mythology, humdrum Marvel films that had come before (including the first
Without mentioning reports that the man accused of shooting up a Jewish Community Center over the weekend was apparently a fan of the left’s Max Blumenthal, CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen exploited the murders to claim the American Right
It is not just Markos of Daily Kos infamy claiming the Left has won the culture war. The Week’s Matt Lewis is saying the same. Yeah, they are both kinda trolling. So ‘scuse me while I take the bait. Let’s
While most of the news coming out about actor Mark Wahlberg’s MTV Movie Awards speech is focused on his f-bombs, the openly Catholic actor also paid tribute to America, God, and Palm Sunday: — — This is America and anything
Michael Isikoff, the left-wing journalist most famous for getting scooped on The Story of the Decade by Matt Drudge, is exiting NBC News. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple confirmed the report Friday. Isikoff told The New York Times: “[I]t was
What could have been a financial windfall for Paramount has turned into a film that might not break even. Hopefully, the box office history of “Noah” will tell Hollywood two things: 1. If you build it, we will come: The
Jerry Lewis : Women Are Funny, but Not When Crude A while back, Jerry Lewis got in trouble for declaring flatly that women are not funny, including Lucille Ball. It was a dumb thing to say, even when you are
The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond reports that during a ceremony at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Oscar-winner Charlton Heston became only the 18th person honored in the U.S. Postal Service’s “Legends of Hollywood” series. The first class stamp is
In its second weekend, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is in a fight for the top spot with new release “Rio 2.” Both sequels are circling $40 million-plus weekends. No surprise there. But proving you can only fool people for
‘…and an American hero.’ — Jack Bauer returns in a 12-episode limited series this May. Looks as though Bauer is working so deep into some kind of black ops that even the president and CTU have no idea what he’s
Dozens of Al Jazeera America employees were laid off after the ratings-challenged network decided to close down its sports bureau and reduce “The Stream” from a daily to weekly show. The network attempted to put the best spin possible on
Super model Heidi Klum dressed up in a feather head dress and put some war paint on her face. She is now being accused of some new politically correct thoughtcrime called “cultural appropriation.” It has to be a thoughtcrime because
Though its budget was much larger than “Noah’s”, Russell Crowe’s “Robin Hood” is considered a flop after grossing only $105 million in North America. Currently “Noah” is pacing a little ahead of where “Robin Hood” was after the same number
I had to laugh as some of the commenters on yesterday’s Top 5 actually freaked out after I pointed out how low Colbert’s ratings are and that “The Colbert Report” is regularly beat by Adult Swim. Why does math and science
The box office chickens have really come home to roost for Disney’s The Muppets. The divisive political partisanship that stunk up their re-launch a couple of years ago, has caught up to them in a fierce way with “Muppets Most Wanted.” After
Box Office: “Noah” Slowing Fast Though its budget was much larger than “Noah’s”, Russell Crowe’s “Robin Hood” is considered a flop after grossing only $105 million in North America. Currently “Noah” is pacing a little ahead of where “Robin Hood” was
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has admitted to mistakenly shooting and killing 30-year-old John Winkler, an aspiring television producer. Winkler, 30, was shot after he rushed out of an apartment. Three deputies thought
Hollywood big shots James Cameron, Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle, and Matt Damon will pretend to care about Texas in a nine-part Showtime miniseries that also pretends Global Warming is real. “Years of Living Dangerously,” which was apparently too stupid for
Jeff Zucker, president of left-wing CNN, announced Thursday that Jesus Christ and Mike Rowe will be part of a new CNN line-up, including a revamped primetime. But what is described as a new primetime line-up is really just a soup
Low-Rated Hyper-Partisan Lefty to Replace David Letterman Stephen Colbert is a divisive and rabid left-winger who is already on Late Night and regularly beaten by Adult Swim. Last week he averaged fewer little more than than a half-million demo viewers
“I’m thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth.” – Stephen Colbert CBS Release: The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host,
The Daily News buried the lead in a big way Thursday with a scoop accusing Woody Allen of refusing to hire black actors hidden under a headline that fails to mention the bombshell. According to a Daily News source, the
The Hollywood Reporter writes that the Vatican Newspaper “Avvenire” blasted Russell Crowe’s “Noah” as a “lost opportunity” that presented “Noah without God” and turned the Genesis story into something “ecologically, and vaguely new age, transforming the Biblical tale into a
With what appeared to be a snarky tweet, Matthew Chance, CNN’s Senior International Correspondent, sounded as tired as many of us at CNN’s chase for less-embarrassing ratings through obsessive coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner. “Just back from search flight
Add abcnewsblog to Breitbart, buzzfeed, dailymail as …challenged… — ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) April 9, 2014 — I’m not exactly sure what that means but considering Baldwin’s behavior this past year (and this morning), we should probably consider ourselves lucky that he
